NBC News Story on ISIS Militants Uses Months-Old Footage

Richard Engel’s “NBC Nightly News” story Tuesday night from Iraq highlighted video from LiveLeak showing the deadly march of the Sunni militant group ISIS. Unfortunately, the video is 10-months-old, according to TrackingTerrorism.org.

Engel was careful to note the video had not been verified by NBC News, but he was also not clear about when it was shot, leaving the impression with viewers that it could have been more recent than it was.

“Although our experts verified the authenticity of the video and the actions depicted in it, translated the conversation, and identified the ISIS militant involved, unfortunately we were not able to determine the date this footage was shot,” an NBC News spokesperson tells us.

After TVNewser brought this issue to light, the network added this language to the video captions online: “Note: Video in this report of ISIS militants stopping trucks is undated and may have been released several months ago.”